run interference AmE informal

Just say the word and I'll run interference for you.

Might need you to run interference for me in a while though.

He can run interference for you at the political level.

So they had taken it upon themselves to run interference.

They'll see it as a chance to do their stuff with us to run interference for them.

"That will run interference with our interest level, I would think."

They'll run interference while we get our people out and keep security from calling for outside help.

Eventually we got by using family cars to run interference.

By running interference for you, I put my own career in danger.

But that didn't save him from having to run interference between her and the Board.

Let me go ahead and run interference for you, otherwise anything could happen.

If you hadn't run interference, she'd have been dropped straight into the media days ago.

But he could run interference for the rest of the pack.

Using her head to run interference, I refuse to look.

They were supposed to be running interference and playing hell with the security systems.

Run interference and keep the reporters away from her, okay?

It could have run interference for us, like a football player.

"I'm having trouble running interference and doing my job," he wrote.

He'd have a couple thousand folks running interference for him then.

It is easier for a small man to pull out of the line and run interference than a big one.

Maybe Miles ran interference by being the more challenging target.

Thus, there can be no running interference or blocking as in American football.

If they set up a lot of roadblocks, we may need you to run interference.